- Trains You Towards Ideal
- Prioritizes Motions for Individual Needs
- Frees Up Ranges Of Motion
- Isolates Cooperative Movements in Your Core, Digits, and Limbs
- Integrates Strength and Accuracy with Mental and Physical Conditioning
- Strengthens For Dynamic Stability, Giving Pain Free Power
- Enhances Efficiency for Endurance
- Supplies Resources To Surpass Your Demand
- Coordinates Organ Support
- Optimizes Movements, Time and Efforts
Monday, January 31, 2011
Giving You The Most
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Your Personal Body Mechanic
Feel free to email me questions. Join with me, "your personal body mechanic," to help others understand and utilize the valuable expertise of The Cyto Advantage.
Friday, January 28, 2011
The Power of Biomechanics
Thursday, January 27, 2011
No Weak-End Warriors
Thanks Kimberly Garrison: Fitness Icon Is Gone
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Elite Athletes, Examples for Health and Life
The best are the most able to control their bodies. The elite athletes have relatively more mental control, connection, and “attachment” to their bodies. Key number one, if you want to be one of the best, focus on training your mental control of and connection to your motions.
Even with these, athletes have not come close to reaching their potential in identifying weaknesses, training important ranges, and exceeding current elite levels. Professional sports continues to improve, but the injuries, plateaus, and inability to execute what the coaches envision are due to limitations in training muscle biomechanics. Proper training will take care of these and can step up each sport to an incredible new level.
Everyone can take their health to a new level by improving in like manner. By properly discerning and developing weaknesses and strengths, every athlete and everybody can progress and enjoy themselves longer and stronger. May you enjoy the best of health and performance now and for life.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Strong Enough To Be Healthy
Friday, January 21, 2011
Your Body Has So Much Potential
We witness top athletes pushing their bodies to new limits. Some sports demand more diversity of motions than others, but as any athlete knows, just because he can swing a bat or a club, it doesn't mean he can ice skate. I can swim faster and longer than most big, buff, champion wrestlers or football players even being twenty to thirty years their senior! And there are eighty year old marathon runners, male and female, who can whip my bootie. This says a lot about muscle function. It is very specific and is not age-dependent.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Measuring Your Health by Your Density
Good Morning!
This morning I went to Trader Joe's and and was reminded of the
goodness in a freshly, fully-packed pantry. The
displays were full of abundance and life. I
walked out of there saying, "Always shop (for healthy food) on
an empty stomach."
Many
people are not used to thinking of their bodies as a pantry.
Your organs are not only for use but for storage. I liken your
body to many bank accounts that belong to one owner. The owner
often borrows from one area to build another. Your muscular
system, when not in use, is often called upon to give up resources to
be used elsewhere. This is why someone in a traumatic accident
or after a stroke will lose so much muscle tissue.
The more nutrients you store, the more dense you become. When you have more fats and
carbohydrates than you do nutrition and than you have need for
them, you store these as fat. Storing fat is good unless it becomes a
burden and you are unable to use it.
The way to become dense is to choose nutrient rich foods and to do
activities that use these nutrients. You also must sleep
for maintenance and repair. You can make your muscles
more dense by use and your brain too. All your organs can
become more dense. You have heard that some people have
"thicker skin!" You can even strengthen your emotions
all by learning how to become more dense.
The flip side of become dense is to become buoyant. (I say
this lightly.) Fat can be heavy, and it can become laden with
waste and toxins, but it weighs less per cubic inch than organs and
muscles. We become buoyant when we lose nutritional density in
our hormonal and other systems. The key to reversing excess
fat, no matter whether it is due to overeating, diabetes, or some
other disease, is to choose to become well-stocked and dense with
nutrients.
You can get the good nutrients you need to become nutrient dense
by consuming substances that have lots of nutrients like spices,
herbs, juices, fruits, sea and land vegetables, meats, and
unrefined, quality oils. You must have good quality fats
and oils to become nutrient dense. (Who has room for processed foods
when you are busy enjoying all the flavor and abundance in the real
foods?) You can take concentrated nutrients in
externally using those same high quality oils, highest quality
essential oils, spices, herbs, Epsom and other salts, kelp and much
more.
The key to
"Maximizing quality in" is discerning and choosing what gives you the healthiest array of nutrients
.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Are You Ready For Healing?
Monday, January 10, 2011
Living Fully
As the graph depicts, when you consistently invest in your body so you cannot go backwards, you will maximize your upward progress more quickly than you imagined possible. Your success is only a few important steps away.
Notice how the beginning changes are smaller. Expect this with your body. Your first days of The Cyto Advantage are significant, but what happens in the next week is substantial. Within a few weeks, you change your poor biomechanics and enjoy a renewed life. It can happen this fast when we work together optimally and purposefully.
Taking care of your body to live fully means I give you the most refreshing motions either manually or through very unique and precise exercises. As you and I discover your weaknesses, we work together to fix them. You learn to do motions you are missing. At the onset, it takes concentrated time, effort and money, but as you fulfill the needed changes in your body, you recuperate the cost with the results of renewed health and life. What could take years or never happen can happen quickly with The Cyto Advantage.
Do you have the vigor to gain a renewed life? Reversing problematic biomechanics is a call and a few weeks away. Living fully is then up to you.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Why Biomechanics?
Biomechanists are usually associated with fitting prosthetics and with baseball pitching analysis. However, your body is special enough to be assisted with such caring, careful precision. While there are not enough biomechanists to meet the biomechanical needs of everyone now, I have vision for a body mechanics shop at every corner.
Why? Biomechanist are needed because movement is so important and still very underrated. Biomechanists would improve children's physical development, athletes' performances, businessmen's golf games, and how well everyone at every age would work and enjoy life.
As a biomechanist, I study the many ways you move. I note where your movements are strong, dominant, and creating imbalances and evaluate where your movements are restricted, weak, and unstable.
Then I help you move in the needed, biomechanically under-used ranges. How I help you is very specific and unique to your needs. Each precise motion you will make improves your biomechanics. As your muscles and joints work better, you feel better, and your joint structures can heal.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Turning Your Body Around
Your body is designed with a tremendous margin of tolerance, meaning, there is significant deviation from ideal before you feel symptoms. For a healthy body, the first symptoms are mild. Thus, unless you know to pay attention, you may unintentionally ignore them.
In the margin of failure, aspects of your lifestyle and previously important activities come to a halt. You may struggle to meet your basic physical needs, such as cleaning, cooking, even dressing and sleeping. You may think it has to do with disinterest, being tired, or laziness, but these often occur because of decreased bodily functions.
Your mind must assist the body, for the body is first dependent upon the mind. The mind is dependent upon the body to carry out its tasks. In return, you must adequately, even amply, give to your one and only, truly amazing, helpful and necessary servant, your body.
People in longstanding pain and dysfunction must soul search if they want to have a renewed life. A renewed life is comprehensive; and, it is a joy that proper changes bring rewards. Renewal of life means that the old, stale, not-working philosophy is replaced with one that sustains a fresh, healthy, genuinely better quality of life.
Discussing Medication, Surgery, Miracle Healing
Sometimes taking pain-pills, having a surgery or receiving a miraculous healing makes the body feel better. When these situations bring relief, the recipient is given a second chance to take initiative for their own health. If the mind doesn't have a healthy care for the body, the better feeling will not last long. As far as I've witnessed, if the recipient doesn't use the better health to further help the body parts to work better, then the pain comes back, often worse and differently with certain surgeries and pain-masking medications.
There are many who are disappointed and still in pain who have tried to be proactive, prayed for miraculous healings, or have endured failed surgeries. If this is you, you still can meet the needs of your body. Your quest must continue to properly support joint and muscular function. Adequate improvements are always needed to truly heal.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Step Three for Mastering Your Physical You
Nutrients are concentrated in herbs, spices, beverages, and foods. What they offers varies in quality and density depends on how they were grown, harvested, stored, and prepared. These consumables transfer their chemical and electrical energy to equip your cells to protect, provide and replicate.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Step Two for Mastering Your Physical You
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Step One for Mastering Your Physical You
Monday, January 3, 2011
Responding To Pain and Problems
How can you genuinely care? First, you get involved. You must pay attention and listen to the feedback that your body gives you. All day long, it offers you a remarkable amount of information.
When you feel cold, warm, itchy, tense, relaxed, discomforted, comfortable, or in pain, your nervous system is providing details to your brain. Even the types of pain are important messages to help you know what is happening. Problem tells you that you didn't have enough strength in the tissue to meet the forces. Torn muscles tell that the muscle fibers were not strong enough to resist the forces. Worn out discs or cartilage communicate that skewed forces have been grating the tissue. Ligaments back up the muscles, so tears reveal significant muscular weakness in the ranges that correlate with the position of the ligament.
The first thing to do if you experience symptoms or a problem is to ask, "Why?" Why does this hurt? Why did my knee lock? What is the reason that I am feeling stiff? Is there a disc pinching a nerve? Is there something not working to make my knee lock? Did I eat well yesterday? Was I sleeping a certain way? Did I sleep long enough?
You must become a detective who won't stop until you get your answer. Whenever you are interested in understanding something, you ask questions, you ponder, you try to make connections between the cause and the effect. Learning is always a process of trial and error and increasing your ability to discern the truth from the half-truths. Sometimes you are fortunate and the best solutions come quickly and easily. However most of the time, it takes persistence, diligence, and tenacity to find what is best. You must hone the skills that real, enduring health requires.
Symptoms are desirable feedback. They are your body's way of politely saying, "Help me, there is a problem." If you do not listen, it will eventually scream, "Help me!" You may try to shut it up by using pain killers or cutting out parts of it, but this is not a real solution. It just cuts off the communication. Even if you feel better, you have not provided a correction of the faulty biomechanics. The result is simply a postponed and often bigger, more painful problem.
Either you will learn to master your body's problems and your symptoms or they will master you. They will make it so that you either can or cannot do the things you want to do. Thus, mastery necessitates learning how your body works. The more serious and debilitating the symptoms, the more your body is demanding you get involved and take responsibility.
The moral of this blog is to take a genuine, caring interest in your body. Listen to it. Get to know it. Figure out how it works and how to help it. Your body is the only one you have. Treat it with the utmost of healthy tender, loving, care, and it will treat you the same.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Excelling With The Cyto Advantage
John Wooden, the man with the title of being the "Winningest Coach," stressed our need to master the basics to win. His philosophy pertains to every aspect of life. "The basics" of your musculoskeletal system are the individual muscle cells that control your movements. If you are to perform, move, and heal well, the energy and repair systems that support the muscles and all the cells of your joint structures must function well. This is an amazingly "tall-order" that we ask and try to demand of our bodies, often without giving our bodies the resources and tools needed to fill our orders.
Healing is multi-faceted. With The Cyto Advantage, you learn to master the basics of healing. I will coach you to understand your body's needs and how to meet them. At the beginning, I assess what is happening with your joints and begin to gently and specifically get their weak, "stuck," unused ranges moving. My tchnique feels good. You are not suppose to hurt. Pain is a warning sign, and you have choices for how you can respond it.
Where your body is weak, it has not had the energy and neural input to run important muscles. After I manually activate your muscles, you are better prepared to Saito Precision Exercise them in these unused ranges. These exercises are more precise than anything you have done. We will consider which other systems in your body may be limiting the healing resources.
All painful problems occur because there is weakness in the tissue for which your supply did not meet your demand. Some of you admit you have weaknesses. Others of you, often weight lifters or people who are otherwise strong, do not realize how weak you are in important power-building ranges. Weakness is a serious and overlooked concern.
Weakness causes imbalance which causes instability. When the demands you place on your joints exceeds the ability for these joints to maintain adequate stability, joint structures are strained. If your body does not have the resources to re-stabilize the joint, the tissues remain irritated and will increasingly become damaged. The body will try to compensate. You may overuse and imbalance other areas. You may make callouses, bone spurs, scar tissue or another means of attempting temporary healing or stability. The good news is that the body is alive, and you can reverse compensation and your problematic biomechanics. What abnormal tissue your body can lay down, it can usually take up. What was damaged can usually be healed. You and I just need to help it do what it has not been able to do without assistance.
Feel free to email me questions that arise from my explanations.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Renewed Life for the New Year 2011
Ready to make lasting changes? If you are like I am, you are eager to make solid improvements. Health is always one of my top priorities. From health springs my ability to work, play, perform well, and feel good. I want to enjoy my kids, my spouse, friends and family without distractions of pain or discomfort. I desire to accomplish the myriad of daily activities and projects with a bounce in my step. I need my health so I can love and serve those around me. After all, those around me are the reason for my working, cooking, cleaning, listening, caring, and running endlessly.
I don't want my body slowing me down. I want and need to take good care of myself so I can give and enjoy each day to the fullest. My clear thinking, happy composure, glowing complexion, bright eyes and bushy tail depend upon it. My accurate golf putt, quick reflexes, powerful swimming stroke, and youthful endurance improve with my health and diminish with those things that stress my well-being and harm my body. I, like you, want my body to do what my mind says. I want my body to jump up in the morning ready to work for me and for it to be cheerful, not painful, while it is doing it.
Greetings! I am Joni Saito Leckey. I just moved to Scottsdale, Arizona from Oregon to attend the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Tempe this Fall. Until then, I am available to share with you the results of my 8 years of academic training and 20 years of professional research and quest to improve the function of the musculoskeletal system. As I convert my findings into layman's terms, it is my goal for you to understand and respond to the aches and pains with proper care. Just like everything you have mastered, you simply need guidance and diligence to know well what is so near and dear to you, your body.
Join me daily in this adventure and feel free to call or email me with questions. Your body is waiting on you to learn how to nurture it with the needed catalysts for healing, and The Cyto Advantage is here to help you.